Lawyers - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 156584324X ISBN 13: 9781565843240

Publisher: The New Press, 1997

Lawyers brings together thirty-five outstanding excerpts and articles on the legal profession in the first reader to address the whole range of vital questions concerning lawyers and their increasing impact on all aspects of society. Are lawyers merely hired guns or are they morally responsible for the clients they represent? Who does and does not obtain legal services? How does law school make students more conservative? Can law contribute to the creation of a more just society?

Comprehensive and provocative, Lawyers offers a broad overview, critically examining the occupation’s claim to professional status, describing dramatic changes both at home and abroad, and looking at the ways lawyers govern and monitor themselves. The book also examines who is admitted to the bar, emphasizing those long excluded—women and racial minorities—and the range of jobs lawyers perform, especially the two extremes of private practice: solo or small firms, and megafirms with thousands of employees in offices around the world.

Lawyers is the perfect book for a country of would-be Clarence Darrows—and their many admirers and critics.

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About the Author:

Richard L. Abel is Connell Professor of Law at UCLA. He is a recipient of the Law and Society Association's Harry Kalven prize for his work on the legal profession.

Review:

Richard Abel's collection of essays on the legal profession in the raw, from the practical to the ideal, is for lawyers, judges, and law students to ponder and act accordingly. The laser-beam insights and candor in this volume etch both the higher promise and the unfulfilled performance of our society's most powerful and catalytic profession. -- Ralph Nader

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